Always read the instructions if you've not ever posted in projects or places like that....

So I finished a scarf this morning that I am/was planning to gift to a favorite relative this year. I used a rust colored wool/acrylic/alpaca/silk blend for the warp and an alpaca/merino blend in rust-orange and brown for the weft. I posted a pic in the projects. I was really displeased with the weft yarn. It is a 2 ply with brown and rust/orange twisted through and there were large sections with off color - some with just the rust/orange and some with just black. It makes the entire piece look like I beat the weft with varying degrees of pressure. I have more of this yarn and am planning something on the 4h loom in some kind of twill to see if maybe it isn't as noticable.

I posted a couple projects that I am happy with. Overall, this hasn't been a very satisfactory month of projects. Otoh, I got several things finished so I am happy with that.

Fixin' to warp the 4h with some alpaca and a thick purple wool to make a thick and thin scarf for the daughter of the above giftee. Hope to get to that this week.

We are remodeling the two oldest rooms in our house - build sometime in the 30s - and turning them into a work room for the 8 harness loom and the wheel, and an office area with a space to store stash and supplies. Yesterday we got enough of the sheetrock over the old walls to move the large wardrobe in so I could finally, after 3 1/2 years, unpack my yarn stash and get it all out and onto shelves. Good thing is that everything except a small tote of acrylics are out of the boxes. Bad thing is there's so much yarn that I ran out of shelves so now it's all just stacked on top of each other. At least I can *see* what I have now, mostly.

Hopefully, in three more weeks, the work room will be done enough I can set up the loom. I've had this loom for maybe 4 years and haven't put one single warp on it yet, although I do have one threaded into the reed and waiting. I'm keeping fingers crossed.

Finishing the walls and paint can wait till next year. Right now I am really excited about finally having my own space without having to always move looms and yarn from room to room.

So that's my weaving progress for the weekend. Gotta get back to the gift on the rh loom and warp the 4h loom.

Nanefire - thanks for the kind words but I ended up walking away from the whole thing for two or three days and just wound yarn and piddled with other weaverly things. Don't be afraid to just walk away and do something else. Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps you sane.